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...problems, taking the games back to the city that hosted the summer version in 2008.Beijing was seen by the InternationalOlympicCommittee as a secure, reliable choice that also offered vast commercial opportunities in a new winter sports market...

...2022 Winter Olympics will come down to the quality of sports facilities for athletes and sustainability, InternationalOlympicCommittee president Thomas Bach said Monday.Bach is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the IOC will vote Friday to...

...as an ECG.Screening advocates say it's not enough, noting that the European Society of Cardiology and InternationalOlympicCommittee recommend that young athletes undergo ECG screening, and that some other countries, including Italy and...

...colleagues who have repeatedly been implicated in bribery and corruption.Blatter is also a member of the InternationalOlympicCommittee."We highly respect this decision of President Blatter to step down and to initiate the necessary reforms...

...wrestling) leadership on the international level was poor. They were making a bunch of bad decisions. The InternationalOlympicCommittee was sick of dealing with them and their antics. (Dropping wrestling) caused all new leadership to come...

...athletes and officials, including President Francois Holland, who said he felt "immense sadness." The InternationalOlympicCommittee announced it would fly its flag at half-staff for three days.French officials said they would work with...

...Pyeongchang, said. "We can't lose any more time."The working group will consist of officials from the InternationalOlympicCommittee, winter sports federations, the South Korean federal government, Gangwon province and the local organizing...

...don't have to spend billions of dollars building facilities that become white elephants."Let's hope the InternationalOlympicCommittee starts rewarding cities that already have the facilities in place.A city such as this one."We love our...

...using performance-enhancing drugs.Armstrong won the medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The InternationalOlympicCommittee in January vacated the medal Armstrong won in the road time trial. Armstrong tweeted Thursday that he gave...